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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: pompsander who wrote (754149)	11/12/2006 8:58:56 AM
From: Sedohr Nod	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Had I been picking a headline to start off the post it would come from either of these two paragraphs. Any job approval rating on Bush should be compared with that of congress, which I expect to be about half that of the President. The short odds are that the left will overplay their hand. Pretty sure you see that coming too. While a bare majority of 51 percent called the Democrats' victory "a good thing," even more said they were concerned about some of the actions a Democratic Congress might take, including 78 percent who were somewhat or very concerned that it would seek too hasty a withdrawal of troops from Iraq. Another 69 percent said they were concerned that the new Congress would keep the administration "from doing what is necessary to combat terrorism," and two-thirds said they were concerned it would spend too much time investigating the administration and Republican scandals

To: pompsander who wrote (754149)	11/12/2006 9:11:11 AM
From: Sedohr Nod	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Plus, I don't see 9 out of 10 being overly concerned about raising minimum wage. Even the cheapest S.O.B.s I know have been paying above the minimum scale for their least productive employees, at least before it was raised to around $7 here. Most of us would be hard pressed to find many working for the minimum. It's another one of those "feel sorry for the other guy" issues without a lot of real thought behind it.

To: pompsander who wrote (754149)	11/12/2006 12:29:34 PM
From: Mana	Respond to of 769667

But they also expressed concerns that Democrats might seek to pull U.S. troops out of Iraq too quickly or hamper the administration's efforts to combat terrorism, it said. Start U.S. Iraq withdrawal in 4-6 months: Democrats WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrats, who won majorities in the U.S. Congress in last week's elections, said on Sunday they will push for a phased withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq to begin in four to six months. "The first order of business is to change the direction of Iraq policy," said Sen. Carl Levin (news, bio, voting record), a Michigan Democrat who is expected to be chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee in the new Congress. Levin, on ABC's "This Week," said he hoped some Republicans would emerge to join Democrats and press the administration of President George W. Bush to tell the Iraqi government that U.S. presence was "not open-ended." Bush has insisted that U.S. troops would not leave Iraq until the Iraqis were able to take over security for their country. "We need to begin a phased redeployment of forces from Iraq in four to six months," Levin said. Speaking on the same program, Sen. Joseph Biden (news, bio, voting record), a Delaware Democrat who is expected to head the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said he supported Levin's proposal for a withdrawal.

To: pompsander who wrote (754149)	11/12/2006 6:46:20 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Damn! Those are some high numbers: The strongest support, 92 percent, was for lowering drug prices for retirees on Medicare by allowing the government to negotiate directly with drug companies. Some three-quarters of respondents said it should be a top priority, according to Newsweek. Americans also supported raising the federal minimum wage (89 percent), investigating government contracts in Iraq (89 percent) and cutting the interest rate of federal student loans (88 percent).